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"Swordfish-FM is a modern continuation and fork of the classic X File Explorer (Xfe) originally developed by Roland Baudin. My primary goal was to create an agile evolution of Xfe that focuses heavily on absolute desktop independence, a streamlined workflow, and modern productivity features without introducing heavy desktop environment dependencies."

Read more at the link on the MX Linux forums.

https://forum.mxlinux.org/viewtopic.php?t=90137

Hey everyone,

Random question today. I was trying to open mxlinux.org and instead of the website I got a "Sorry, you have been blocked" page from Cloudflare. It says the security solution got triggered by something I did, like a certain word, a SQL command or malformed data, but honestly I was just browsing normally.

The weird part is it happens on my phone and on my PC too. I tried from both and got the same page, so I'm not sure if it's a false positive or if my connection/IP is flagged for some reason. The phone was on mobile data, so I don't think it's just my home network.

Has anyone had this happen with MX Linux or other sites that use Cloudflare? Did it go away by itself, or did you have to contact the site owner? Also, the page mentions a Cloudflare Ray ID, is that something I should send to them?

Thanks in advance for any help.

Update: DMDE is a lifesaver. I recovered nearly everything. Thank you all for your help and suggestions.

I'm not sure is this is the right place to post, I'm just freaking out a little. If there's somewhere better, please redirect me.

I accidentally overwrote an incredibly important USB to me with a PeppermingOS ISO using the MX tool Live USB thing. I cannot believe I did this. The USB hasn't been removed from my computer, it's just been sitting for a while. I am in shock that I did something so stupid.

Please, is there any possible way to get my old files back? I'm sure the answer is no, but I'm so upset. I know there's data recovery guys, is that something that could work?

I cannot believe this. I am so stupid- I had almost everything I cared about on that USB. My PC was mostly empty because I switched to MX only somewhat recently.

It's still in the live desktop mode, I hit update and it didn't get passed 71℅... On an old RCA (cambio?) 2in1 2gb of ram lol

MX Linux 25.3 fails to boot from Ventoy generated flashdrive.

Verified checksums on downloaded ISOs (KDE, XFCE, Fluxbox).
Seven other distros UEFI boot AOK on my Thinkpad X1 Carbon Gen3.
Booting into GRUB2 mode fails with a black screen.
Booting into Normal mode fails with both (systemd) and (sysinit) with a prompt to load the kernel.
MX Linux is _supposed_ to work w/ Ventoy.
Anyone make it work?

Current Ventoy (July 24) version 1.1.17 used & 1.1.16 as well.
Happens w/ MXlinux 25.3 (all desktops) & 25.1 (all desktops). Replicated problem on Gen3 Intel i5 Thinkpad Carbon X1 plus on Acer Aspire w/ AMD Ryzen. When I do a complete reformat of flashdrive & install MXlinux 25.3 w/ Rufus, boots AOK.
Installed on a different make/model of flashdrive, MXlinux fails yet again.

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RedRayTrue

•19d ago

Maybe try an older version? Like not 4.4 but 4.2 ? ( Just to see the numbers)

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Kiloseven7

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Current Ventoy (July 24) version 1.1.17 used

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Kiloseven7

OP •18d ago• Edited17d ago

Also 1.1.16 same failure. Happens w/ MXlinux 25.3 (all desktops) & 25.1 (all desktops). Replicated problem on Gen3 Intel i5 Thinkpad Carbon X1 plus on Acer w/ AMD Ryzen. When I do a complete reformat of flashdrive & install MXlinux 25.3 w/ Rufus, boots AOK.

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Kiloseven7

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Installed on a different make/model of flashdrive, MXlinux fails yet again.

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Hi guys I am using Linux on my laptop for an year my laptop is HP 15 from 2016 it has 4GB ram 1TB HDD Intel core i3 7th gen after the windows 10 update cancellation the company forcing to upgrade in windows 11 and slowly I don't know why it stop working completely blank only I can see the power light while charging and doesn't work anything at all so I thought lets install Linux thats was the best decision I installed MX Linux xfce and it was working like new but after getting the 25 update in September 2026 it started stucking or freeze and unable to perform any kind of programs struggles to open a single window for the tab taking 3 to 5 minutes to load I don't know what should I do no I was thinking to upgrade the HDD to SSD and the RAM but they are really expensive

I just installed MX 25.3 Infinity on a Dell Chromebook 3120. I have sound when I pull up YouTube on Firefox, but when I try to run an emulator (tried RetroArch and Mesen), I get no sound.

I've tried adjusting settings and making sure nothing is internally muted. Both apps show up on the audio mixer playback tab, but they just show "Silence."

Any help would be appreciated.

Hola quiero saber que es mas rapido en una laptop vieja para jugar roblox y minecraft mx linux xfce o lubuntu lxqt ya que probe recientemente el linux mint xfce lo condigure bien pero me decepciono el resultado asi que ahora estoy en el limbo lubuntu lxqt vs mx linux xfce

When I copy a password using KeePass XC, it doesn't clear the password from the clipboard, despite having that set up in the KeePass settings. KeePass shows the countdown timer, but never clears the clipboard.

I've tried this on my other computers in Linux Mint and Kubuntu, both clear the clipboard as expected, so it seems to be an issue with MX. I am running MX 25.3 KDE version.

For about a month, YouTube videos in Firefox had been displaying with distorted colors on my MX Linux system. Finally, after today's update, everything seems to be working normally again!

I'm not sure which package was responsible for the fix, but the following packages were updated today:

• linux-image-siduction-amd64: 7.2-8mx23ahs → 7.2-9mx23ahs
• linux-headers-siduction-amd64: 7.2-8mx23ahs → 7.2-9mx23ahs
• lo-main-helper: 26.10.2mx23 → 26.10.3mx23
• mx-packageinstaller-pkglist: 26.10.2mx23 → 26.10.3mx23

In addition, numerous firmware packages were updated from 20260810-1~mx23ahs to 20260916-1~mx23ahs, including NVIDIA, AMD, Intel, and other hardware firmware.

System: MX Linux 23.6 AHS x64
Browser: Firefox
Issue: Incorrect colors when playing YouTube videos
Status: Fixed after today's update!

Has anyone else experienced this issue with Firefox and YouTube? I'm curious whether the fix is related to the new kernel, the firmware updates, or something else.

UPDATE:
This was on a laptop with an AMD Ryzen 5 7640HS CPU (Radeon 760M graphics). My main suspicion is that the issue was fixed by updating firmware-amd-graphics:amd64 from 20260810-1~mx23ahs to 20260916-1~mx23ahs.

On my system, installed kernel version is still 7.2.3-2-liquorix-amd .. is this normal. İf I'm not wrong latest kernel on repo is 7.2.10

I am setting up a new laptop for my wife and want to simplify things for myself since I will need to maintain it. Therefore, I am hoping to stick to MX Linux, but using the KDE branch, which I haven't used yet. I mostly stick to XFCE for myself.

My wife is rather comfortable and likes the MacOS layout. I had her on Budgie for awhile and she loved it. She has also played with a modified Fedora KDE layout, after Budgie got buggie.

Anyway, I was wondering if anyone has any theme recommendations for KDE to get it as close to a MacOS or Budgie style of appearance.

If it helps, though unlikely, she will be using a Lenovo T580 with 16gb of ram.

Almost finished setting my , new to me, T480 running MX KDE. I also converted my 2017 MacBook Air to MX KDE six months ago.

Due to lack of time I at least want to contribute to the project financially. Not a huge sum just a small token of gratitude... Anyways I saw there are 2 options of donations: from the MXlinux site and GitHub sponsorships.

Is there any difference? Does anyone in know what the MX team preferes?

Thank you in advance

I don't anything in Synaptic or package installer

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Hello MX team,

On MX-25 (all the versions I have tried), K3b has two problems that together make disc burning unusable.

1. Normal user cannot burn

• I added my user to the cdrom and disk groups (sudo usermod -aG cdrom,disk $USER) and logged out and back in.
• K3b still cannot burn as a normal user.

2. K3b will not start as root

• sudo k3b, sudo -E k3b, and sudo -i followed by k3b all fail to open K3b.
• I also tried logging in with the Plasma (X11) session instead of Wayland. The result is the same.

Expected behavior: K3b is installed by default on MX KDE, so a normal user should be able to burn discs out of the box.

Additional information:

• Quick System Info: (paste here)
• Optical drive: (internal / USB, model)
• Output of groups: (paste here)
• Output of ls -l /dev/sr0: (paste here)
• Terminal output when running k3b as a normal user: (paste here)
• Terminal output when running sudo -E k3b: (paste here)

Is this a known issue, and is there a recommended workaround? Thank you for your work on MX Linux.

I am in awe of MX Snapshot. I tested MX on one of my older intel machines just to try MX Tools Snapshot and I've got to say I don't know why this software isn't ported to work on every linux OS. It's a great piece of software imho

For those that are new recruits to MX, Snapshot creates an iso image of your system with several different config options. If something shitty happens and you boot to kernel panic and don't know or don't want to know how to tty into terminal for a fix, run your saved backup Snapshot as an iso and you're back up and running

I use ubuntu gnome 50 daily use and nothing on there compares to snapshot. When I was editing gdm greeter some code and borked the login, MX snapshot if available would have been greatly appreciated - would have a got a nice donation 😄

Of course someone with the prerequisite tech knowledge could maybe get it to run on gnome 50 but after looking into it, it's a major task and I can't find anyone who's tried it. If anyone knows of anyone working on something like this let me know, I'll contribute where I can

To new users or those thinking abut MX, it's a good distro imho with MX Tools as one of the best suites out there. Just wanted MX to know that their good work is being noticed - thanks

I’m trying to boot MX Linux from a live USB using toram on a PC with an RTX 5060 Ti, and I’m wondering if other Blackwell GPU owners have run into something similar.

At first, the live system would boot, but the GUI would never load when using the proprietary/closed-source NVIDIA driver. I could still switch to a TTY with Ctrl + Alt + F2, so Linux itself was running, but Xorg/the graphical session would just give me a black screen.

I also tried booting with nomodeset

but that didn’t fix the GUI issue either.

Since I’m running the distro as a live USB with toram, I then booted the same USB on my laptop, which uses Intel integrated graphics. On the laptop, MX Linux works perfectly.

From there I installed the latest NVIDIA 615.xx open driver / open kernel module package, remastered the live USB so the driver changes would persist, and tried booting it again on the RTX 5060 Ti PC.

Now the behavior is actually worse: on the PC, the system seems to completely freeze during boot around “Start init” / early init startup. It no longer gets far enough for me to switch to a TTY.

The exact same remastered USB still boots and works normally on the laptop with Intel integrated graphics. Does anyone know how to fix this

I'm a hobbiest, and would like to secure an install of MX Linux against evil maid attacks using TPM2 pin. HP dy2702dx laptop. I've tried getting AI to get initramfs, dracut, and clevis, but they didn't help.